Dust Quotes

Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

Friends, Become, Awards

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.
Dionne Warwick

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust.
Michelle Malkin

Political, Her, Road

I would certainly never consider myself a Renaissance Man; I'm not fit to look at the dust from the chariot wheels of many of those who have gone before me.
Alexander McCall Smith

Before, Gone, Consider

I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.
George C. Wallace

Tomorrow, Before, Tyranny

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
Hal Sparks

Life, Happiness, Often

You find me at work; excuse the dust on my blouse. I sculpt my marble myself.
Camille Claudel

Work, Find, Excuse

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has survived them.
Carlisle Floyd

Art, Long, Through

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.
Bram Stoker

Eyes, Before, Whole

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.
William Bernbach

Against, Idea, Talent

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?
Regina Spektor

End, Thinking, Everything

People are fascinating. They're so unique and I think what's more fascinating is the reason behind the physical characteristic, the enigma, that's where the gold dust is.
Andrea Riseborough

Reason, Unique, Behind

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust.
Bradley Chicho

Moon, Star, Catch

That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust.
Robert Byrd

Speak, Last, Until

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.
Jane D. Hull

Health, Control, Plan

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.
Colin Hay

Famous, Yourself, Away

Music washes away the dust of every day life.
Art Blakey

Life, Music, Away

Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore

We can't feel anything - all that's left inside us is dust.
Andrei Platonov

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.
Meshell Ndegeocello

End, Black, Seems

And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally important it must be to control their very birth in the heart, and guard them with the keenest possible restraint.
Algernon H. Blackwood

Heart, Important, Long

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
Rachel Griffiths

Small, Bit, Texas

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!
Austin Dobson

Flowers, Shall, Among

Red Dust was about the late 1980s; it was a time of burgeoning hopes and opening up and people searching for new ways.
Ma Jian

Time, Late, Ways

Watch my dust.
George Herman

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
Adrian Belew

Working, Year, Until

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.
Adrian Belew

Live, Songs, Includes

I was at Yankee Stadium one time at 5 a.m., but that was to buy angel dust.
Artie Lange

Time, Angel, Yankee

Hope raises no dust.
Paul Eluard

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up , dust yourself off and move on.
Andie MacDowell

Best, Yourself, Regret

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